Learned Something New Today

**Ross Macintosh** · 09 June 2018, 06:20 PM

Egg -- Somehow I doubt the Penny Note will gain traction. If however you wish to be an early adopter I'll record you in the blockchain as the owner of 600,000,000 of the Pennies. My gift to you.

Keith -- The guilloche approach I used was to simply superimpose two different blends of lines. I started with a wavy line (created as a sine curve), duplicated it and made a blend. I then cloned that blend but stretched and squished it so it was different than the original blend. So the guilloche effect is simply created by seeing the two sets of blend lines and their visual interaction.

**Egg Bramhill** · 09 June 2018, 06:40 PM

Love the name Penny's for the note

**ernie-f** · 10 June 2018, 09:49 AM

I have already designed guilloche samples for various certificates.
Gulloche is not only a simple cross-blend but also requires creativity. For Adobe Illustrator there are a few plugins that can generate patterns. In Xara I do everything by hand.
Here's a little example:

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**Boy** · 10 June 2018, 10:02 AM

Purty!

**Ross Macintosh** · 10 June 2018, 11:03 AM

That's cool Ernie.

**ss-kalm** · 10 June 2018, 03:50 PM

Excellent work Ernie

**ernie-f** · 10 June 2018, 05:50 PM

Thanks for the compliments.
But in Xara it is easy to achieve good results.
Using the rosette as an example, I only used smart shapes.
In the variations you can generate many different patterns and forms from a single blend.
Everything is quick and easy.

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**hseiken** · 22 June 2018, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by ernie-f

I have already designed guilloche samples for various certificates.
Gulloche is not only a simple cross-blend but also requires creativity. For Adobe Illustrator there are a few plugins that can generate patterns. In Xara I do everything by hand.
Here's a little example:

Significantly cool work here. While I don't particularly (personal taste comment following) like the style itself, the detail of the work itself is still worthy of me just looking at the details and enjoying the patterns and intricacies. Your rendition here is superb, as is the original. I know the 'tricks' to make it easier in Xara, but my brain, when just looking at it, goes, 'WOW!' regardless of the fact I know it's just clever use of the blend tool. Super awesome.